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What are some good Mountain Man/Forest Ranger/Wilderness Movies?
The Solemates
04-01-2010, 14:27
alone in the wilderness
jeremiah johnson
last of the mohicans
deliverance
River Wild, Deliverance, and well, I'll think of some more.
Graywolf
04-01-2010, 14:53
except for the first post most of them have nothing to do with Mountain Men or Forest service:D,,
I would say:
The Mountain Men, cant remember the producer but great movie..
Sour Dough
Mountan Man, dont confuse with the above movie..Mountain Man recreates how Yosemite National Park had it's start..
Those are just a few..
Graywolf
alone in the wilderness was a good one
I enjoyed Snow Walker (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1143677-snow_walker/?critic=creamcrop) immensely.
FritztheCat
04-01-2010, 16:22
I enjoyed Snow Walker (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1143677-snow_walker/?critic=creamcrop) immensely.
I enjoyed this movie as well. You can see the whole thing on hulu.com. http://www.hulu.com/watch/71314/the-snow-walker
flemdawg1
04-01-2010, 16:33
Without a Paddle
Into the Wild (maybe not great, but def good)
Alive
not sure how closely these all fit the criteria, but some of my favorites are:
Jeremiah Johnson
Into the Wild
Bushwhacked
Grizzly Park
Harry and the Hendersons (does Bigfoot count as a mountain man?)
The Lord of the Rings (awesome mountain scenery)
The Great Outdoors
The Last of The Mohicans
Deliverance (sorry to keep repeating everyone above, but they're right)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Vertical Limit
Ravenous
Almost Heroes
Not a movie, but I watched "The Forest Rangers" as a kid.
Never should have gone off the air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV4-JlwWt0&NR=1
BobTheBuilder
04-01-2010, 17:03
A classic. Don't forget, an elk don't know how many legs a horse has, ya fool pilgrim!
But you might enjoy reading, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America," by Timothy Egan.
Fascinating, true account about the founding of the US Forest Service, and one of our nation's worst forest fires.
Egan also wrote: "The Worst Hard Time." An amazing true account of those who endured the Dust Bowl.
A classic. Don't forget, an elk don't know how many legs a horse has, ya fool pilgrim!
"Saw it right off."
Graywolf
04-01-2010, 18:34
not sure how closely these all fit the criteria, but some of my favorites are:
Jeremiah Johnson
Into the Wild
Bushwhacked
Grizzly Park
Harry and the Hendersons (does Bigfoot count as a mountain man?)
The Lord of the Rings (awesome mountain scenery)
The Great Outdoors
The Last of The Mohicans
Deliverance (sorry to keep repeating everyone above, but they're right)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Vertical Limit
Ravenous
Almost Heroes
Harry and the Hendersons, That movie is hilarious..had me laughing the entire show..I dont think I could even eat any pop corn with out spitting it out..
One of my favorite parts was, well, you just have to see it for your self..Dont want to spoil it..
Graywolf
Old Grouse
04-01-2010, 18:45
Jeremiah Johnson for sure, and "watch yer topknot, Pilgrim!"
The ones mentioned above (My first thought was Jeremiah Johnson)
Not really in your criteria, but some AT "Movies":
Lynn Weldon's "How to hike the AT" is old but a good look at how some, even Wingfoot & Warren Doyle felt a Thru should be done.
& a few years ago Backpacker put out a video where they gave a few hikers small (for the time) video cameras to use on their thru hikes. I do not remember the title, But I would bet you can Google it. PBS shows it from time to time.
There is an interview with David Brill (wrote the book "As far as the eye can see" about his 70's thru hike) & some decent At scenery & stuff.
SGT Rock
04-01-2010, 19:31
Grizzly man. By the end of the movie you are rooting for the bears.
[note on Hatchet Jack] I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7nqxIdROsI
Grizzly man. By the end of the movie you are rooting for the bears.
Agreed....:D
envirodiver
04-01-2010, 20:59
Jeremiah Johnson for sure, and "watch yer topknot, Pilgrim!"
Know how to skin a Griz? Jeremiah Johnson is my favorite.
Alone in the Wilderness, I think, is the documentary about the guy that went to alaska and built his log cabin by hand. Everything, including tool handles. He then lived alone in his spot for 20-30 years, till he was too old to care for himself. The state made it a historical place and yet allowed him to stay in it whenever he wished.
Very cool film.
Real wilderness..."Quest for Fire" :eek:
Lone Wolf
04-01-2010, 21:42
1 million years B.C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au5nMXrbRpc
sasquatch2014
04-01-2010, 21:55
Didn't think you buried it deep enough.
"He says you fish poorly."
Incahiker
04-07-2010, 15:02
Ride due west as the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.
can you skin griz just as fast as you can bringem heres one pilgrim ill get ya another one
Pacific Tortuga
04-10-2010, 17:03
Continental Divide ( J.Belushi)
Last of the Dog Men
along with the others
Pacific Tortuga
04-10-2010, 17:04
Didn't think you buried it deep enough.
saw right off
I think Cold Missouri Waters (http://www.kasmarpro.com/smokejumpers/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=66) is the "smoke jumpers" movie I saw years ago. There were three survivors, who did what they were told, following procedure, and lived.
There are a lot of smoke jumpers movies.
I don't know how realistic they are.
I understand the smoke jumpers are not called-in so much, now, the federal forest management policy has been to not allow cutting permits for "firewood" and so the forest fires burn much hotter.
In addition, I would like to mention I always thought Alan Lad westerns were more realistic, that, and the "Sky King" tv show.
I really liked Last of the Dogmen: I have the DVD.
That is the most authentic wilderness movie I have seen in awhile.
I saw Bears. I think the man was an idiot. The filmmaker made the best possible film.
I think John McPhee's book: Up from the Plains has a realistic portrayal of the early west family life, as well as, a great geology book about landforms.
Have a look at James Willard Schultz "wiki": some of his stories are very authentic.
I understand Ivan Doig's books are good. Some people hate his books. I don't recall the name, but he had one book about a ranger in Glacier National Park region. I think it was Ivan Doig. It was about drawing the map.
My favorite author about the era is Calvin Rutstrum, North American Canoe Country, and, Wilderness Cabin.
Monkeyboy
04-11-2010, 23:25
Dude, Where's My Car?
XCskiNYC
04-11-2010, 23:36
The Road is pretty good, except for the lame ending which seems like it was written with the help of focus group interviews.
Dersu Uzala, from the days when men were men and you could see a pack's frame right out in the open.
Cant belive no one has said Southbounders.
It was okay, but is about thru hiking on the AT.
Into the Wild was good
Deliverance is a classic
SMSP
Far Out
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/far-out--2/heimo-s-arctic-refuge-full-length
double d
05-17-2010, 08:56
Jeremiah Johnson for sure, especially the mt. man Del Que (with an E)!. Great quote from Jeremiah Johnson,"You've come far Pilgram" Answer: "Feels like far". The Road was very interesting (and depressing), so I'll list it as I think it fits here. I might add Red Dawn, living off the land and fighting the 1980's Russian and Cuban army in the moutains of Colorado, how could any 1980's teenager like me not love that wilderness movie?
wcgornto
05-17-2010, 09:11
I didn't see this one on the list, so I thoight I would add it. Sidney Poitier, Kirstie Alley, Tom Berenger. A decent action movie, but an excellent outdoor movie set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
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A man is discovered breaking into his own jewelery shop in the dead of night. Questioned closely, it is learnt that his wife is being held hostage by an extortionist who demands the diamonds in the shop's safe. The extortionist manages to escape FBI agent Warren Stantin, who subsequently chases him into the forests of Northern America. Stantin recruits the help of a reluctant local Jonathon Knox, who has the skills necessary to track down the criminal. The only problem is that Stantin has no experience in the wilderness...
Tom Berenger was in Last of the Dogmen. I like it enough, I got the DVD.
A couple others I thought of that didn't see mentioned:
Legends of the Fall
Cliffhanger
Vertical Limit
Cabin Fever - if you like horror movies
SawnieRobertson
05-18-2010, 19:36
The TV series CENTENNIAL, how about that? And then there was MAN IN THE WILDERNESS and WILL PENNY. Did you read and then see FOLLOW THE RIVER? Two films that got me to pondering about whether I could rise to the occasion if need be, hiking over mountains to escape whatever tyranny was going to get me and others if we couldn't climb over those mountains, were INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS and, yes, SOUND OF MUSIC. Okay, that is really tangential thinking, but to me they are related and to some extent, each changed my ability to live a bit.--Kinnickinic
Skidsteer
05-18-2010, 19:53
Mountain Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081187/) with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith is a decent flick.
What are some good Mountain Man/Forest Ranger/Wilderness Movies?Here's a real oldie but goodie. Deemed today by some, however, to be somewhat controversial:http://www.answers.com/topic/northwest-passage-film-1
Similar, but totally different, "First Blood" (1982). It features Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo--a heroic Viet Nam War veteran who has returned to the United States following the war. He is hitchhiking from town-to-town looking for old war buddies. He is arrested for vagrancy. Then all heck breaks loose. Rambo spends a large part of the movie surviving in the wilderness of what is supposed to be Washington State. It's just your typical little section hike (with a few more explosions thrown in). :D
Footloose
05-20-2010, 11:49
I was going to say the dog movie homeward bound :), but I just watched a movie called As Far as my Feet will Carry Me that was pretty good.
The Solemates
05-20-2010, 12:23
Far Out
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/far-out--2/heimo-s-arctic-refuge-full-length
awesome - thanks for posting - i've read their book - its great and would recommend it!
chknfngrs
05-20-2010, 13:34
High Mountain Rangers was one of the cheese-tastic teledramas of yesteryear, which also should never have gone off the air.
chknfngrs
05-20-2010, 13:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzHnUirhMk
High Mountain Rangers was one of the cheese-tastic teledramas of yesteryear, which also should never have gone off the air.
Rotten Rob
05-20-2010, 14:34
Meet the Deedles!!!
About these surfer dudes who become park rangers at Yellowstone!!!
Rocket Man, they do a hike on Mars. Pretty funny stuff.
Heavyweights and Earnest Goes to Camp. Greatest outdoors movies evar?
Rotten Rob
05-20-2010, 14:46
Also the Edge is a good outdoor survival movie
Rotten Rob
05-20-2010, 15:05
Also the Edge is a good outdoor survival movie
Forgot how awesome this movie is, Anthony Hopkins, Bart the Bear, and Alek Baldwin. Definantly worth the 5 bucks at the dumb bin in walmart. Bart the Bear is lights out crazy awesome.
"Firestorm" is a movie about forest fires and action packed. Howie Long plays a firefighter/action hero who goes into a forest fire (with a sexy female forest ranger) to kill a bunch of fugitives who started the forest fire.
"Broken Arrow" is movie that takes place in the desert. Christian slater (the poorman's Jack Nicholson) plays a pilot/ action hero who goes into a desert (with a sexy female desert ranger) to kill Howie Long and John Travolta.
John Candy in the "Great Outdoors", and "Camp Candy" the cartoon.
Three amigos.
But I can't recomend the Edge enough. 2XThumbs up
"Death Hunt" with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin.